Money For Nothing
“I started writing it in an appliance store in New York City, in a kitchen display area in the front window. I had a piece of paper and a pencil and just started to write down some of the lines that this guy had been coming out with. So they’re pretty direct; some of those lines are pretty direct. They were written down two minutes after he said them.”Mark Knopfler (127)
In The Gallery
“[Is it a defence of realist art and an attack on the avant-garde? – Ed]. No…yes, in the sense that it reflects what I wanted to say there and then about a guy I knew who died, and it was just a five-minute wham-bang flash of feeling. But it’s not an attack on the avant-garde, in the sense that it’s not intended to be a statement to be taken up by any kind of movement. I don’t belong to any kind of movement, and I don’t want any movement to attach itself to what I say.”Mark Knopfler (653)